1534 19th Street
Bakersfield, California
HO, N, LEGO & Lionel Layouts
Open Saturdays 10AM - 1PM
1534 19th Street
Bakersfield, California
HO, N, LEGO & Lionel Layouts
Open Saturdays 10AM - 1PM
If you remember from the last posting, the work crew was busy laying out the last of the cables necessary to run the signals from the control panel to the track side signals. Now that the cables have been installed, those cables need a termination point--AKA terminal panel--to be connected to the brain center for operating the track side signals. Thus, it was necessary to construct one. Well after a couple of weeks, that terminal panel is complete and ready to be installed on the layout. Laying out the cables and constructing the terminal panel was the easy part! Well, now all those wires have to be connected--all 128 of them! But that's not all. Not only do you have 128 wires coming into the panel, but 128 wires also have to be connected going out to the Signal Driver Components. If my 'rithmatic capabilities are still functioning, that comes out to be 256 wires! Boy, this ought to be fun! But not bad for some 72-year old guy that 18-months ago, didn't know squat about signals and electronics! That's part of the fun of model railroading--learning new stuff you thought you never would do! Stay tuned--or better yet drop on by the GEHAMS clubhouse some Saturday, to check it out yourself! ...........
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